we're going to have some data tomorrow on the fiscal cliff from our all america survey. and it's going to very much make this point that the things that, by the way, republicans and democrats both oppose are things like cuts in medicare spending, raising the retirement age, which is fine. and you can have that. you can have that, but you have that at a dual cost. one is the actual cost that happens when you pay for these programs, the other one is the cost of growing government relative to the private sector. and the thing, dan, tell me if i'm wrong here, that economists don't like about that is it takes a bigger piece of the economy out of connection to productivity growth. we have this number 2.9% productivity, that is in private sector. we don't measure in government -- partially because there isn't any. >> there is some, we don't actually measure it. what you have is a situation where if government does grow less of the economy becomes connected to productivity growth. >> that's totally fair. i don't think anything you're saying is wrong, but i do want -- >> that may